Business Analyst Body of Knowledge
If you're looking for a "Business Analyst Body of Knowledge" document, look no further than the official IIBA website. Their current "BABOK" PDF guide is at Version 2.0, and contains 271 pages of useful information for people interested in the Business Analyst profession.
A rough outline of the BABOK document looks like this:
- Introduction (What is the BABOK? What is Business Analysis? Key concepts. Knowledge areas.)
- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Elicitation
- Requirements Management and Communication
- Enterprise Analysis
- Requirements Analysis
- Solution Assessment and Validation
- Underlying Competencies
- Techniques (34 sub-sections of useful BA techniques)
If you haven't heard of the IIBA before, it stands for the International Institute of Business Analysis, and they are the leading organization in the Business Analyst field.
You have to be an IIBA member to download the BABOK PDF for free, but non-members can either buy the PDF document (see this IIBA URL), or you can purchase a printed BABOK document through Amazon.
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